1
as in newspaper
a publication that appears at regular intervals
that newspaper is intended as an organ for the whole university community
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2
as in instrument
something used to achieve an end
uses the business as an organ to fund a variety of political and social causes
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Recent Examples of organ
More than a 100,000 Americans are currently waiting on organ transplant lists, hoping for a living person to donate one of their kidneys or for someone to die with healthy enough organs and a willingness to donate.
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Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
Water is essential for the proper functioning of every cell, tissue, and organ in your body.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Studies have suggested that the odorless gas can protect vital organs from altitude sickness, while boosting the body’s production of erythropoietin, or EPO, the hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 31 Mar. 2025
The family decided to donate Hilda's organs.
—Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2025
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Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
Water is essential for the proper functioning of every cell, tissue, and organ in your body.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Studies have suggested that the odorless gas can protect vital organs from altitude sickness, while boosting the body’s production of erythropoietin, or EPO, the hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 31 Mar. 2025
The family decided to donate Hilda's organs.
—Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for organ
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Sensational newspaper accounts later suggested the three men had starved to death in the boat after attempting to eat their life vests—a theory that was soon debunked.—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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The seed round was co-led by Sharp Alpha, a venture capital firm based in New York, and dmg ventures, the venture capital arm of DMGT, which owns the Daily Mail newspaper among other holdings.—
Tim Casey,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Will fly one scientific instrument awarded under NASA’s CLPS initiative.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Apr. 2025
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In short the efforts underway at BNY have the potential to unlock better transparency, traceability, and insights for tokenized products whether or not said instruments are stored on-chain or secured via off-chain mechanisms.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Similarly, Amos Kendall, the nation’s postmaster general, adopted an extreme states’ rights position and suppressed the periodicals in the interest of buttressing local mores.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Democrat and the Gazette even blamed the Black residents of Elaine for the violence and the Black periodicals the Chicago Defender and The Crisis (the NAACP’s magazine) for inciting racial hatred.—
Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made by History,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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Amtrak is also not considered a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government and its overseeing regulatory body, the OIG, remains open during shutdowns as well.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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Amtrak is also not considered a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government and its overseeing regulatory body, the OIG, remains open during shutdowns as well.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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In a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy on April 14, 2025, my planetary scientist colleagues and I tried to answer an age-old question: Where are all the carbonaceous chondrites?—
Patrick M. Shober,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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In the journal Science Advances, the researchers describe a series of tests showing that crows clearly had a sense of right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2025
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And Phoebe Cleary Rudd, 29, has grown online hospitality magazine The Sauce to 600,000 monthly readers and is expanding into Club Sauce, an influencer marketing platform.—
Alexandra York,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Last week, the restaurant hosted a dinner party to celebrate the release of i-D magazine’s inaugural issue under new ownership.—
Laura Neilson,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Those qualities should top your list of agent must-haves, along with clear communication and high client ratings.—
Berit Thorkelson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Apr. 2025
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Sellers can now choose whether to offer buyer agent compensation through MLS platforms—a change that has already begun reshaping how homes are bought and sold across the country.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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From her searching emerges a book that might be called biography, historiography, cultural criticism, manifesto, or all of the above—a memoir, in a sense, of the internet.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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Spiritual leaders say while the Muslim holy book, the Quran, is a main reference, their faith incorporates certain beliefs found in other religions, such as reincarnation.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/organ. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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